Good afternoon, folks! I’ve been spending a good amount of today so far reading, in part thanks to listening to the audio versions of the Murderbot books. I’m not sure whether I’m going to review them — after all, I’ve reviewed the original books probably more than once, and I don’t think I have that much to say about audio. That said, I find reviews of audiobooks super helpful when I find them, so maybe it’d be good anyway? We’ll see.
Anyway, as usual linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz.
Books acquired this week:
Two books this week! My wife buys me one book a month of my choice (which has long been our Valentine’s Day agreement: no big fuss on that day, spread out the love through the year), and picked up Ann Leckie’s short story collection for me last weekend. Plus, my British Library Crime Classic book for this month arrived.
So that’s nice! I’m already most of the way through London Particular, though I haven’t figured out whodunnit yet.
Posts from this week:
As usual, here’s a roundup!
- Romance manga: Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon, vol 1, by Shio Usui (3/5 stars)
- Alt historical romance: Honey & Pepper, by A.J. Demas (4/5 stars)
- History: Ten Birds that Changed the World, by Stephen Moss (3/5 stars)
- Classic crime: The Corpse in the Waxworks, by John Dickson Carr (3/5 stars)
- Memoir: Sticker, by Henry Hoke (1/5 stars)
Other posts:
What I’m reading:
As I mentioned, I’ve been tearing through the Murderbot audiobooks, but I’ve also been trying to get to grips with the tottering pile of books I have partially read. I’ve been pretty successful in the last couple of days, hurrah. So here are some of the books that I’ll probably be reviewing soon, having finished them this week!
For the rest of the weekend, it’ll be more Murderbot, finishing up London Particular, and then… who knows?
How’s everyone else doing? Anything exciting from the library this week, or landing on your ereader?
I borrowed Ten Birds That Changed the World from the library this week, but I haven’t started it yet. It looks like you liked it, but you didn’t love it.
I am also interested in seeing what you think about Lapidarium. My husband and I love to go rock hunting, and my husband facets gemstones, so it might be something we would both like to read.
Yeah, that’s a good summary. It was alright, but not as much up my street as I hoped.
Lapidarium is a really gorgeously presented book, and definitely has interesting stories in it, but I found it a bit… bitty and hard to stay interested in. Sort of more of a “dip in and out” sort of book, I guess.
Your selection of books is interesting. I read Ten Birds that Changed the World around a year ago and liked it quite a bit. I found it fun to read and enlightening.
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I found the research a bit shaky (as you can see in my review), e.g. the fact that it claims the Bible as the oldest version of the flood story, when we know there are earlier versions. Bit weird, and I don’t trust non-fiction which doesn’t do its research well, even on somewhat unrelated topics.
London Particular is a terrific title. Sounds interesting!
It’s what people in London used to call the strange smoggy weather they had sometimes, when it was very industrial! And of course, an awfully good cover for murder… 🙂
How sad, to me, that I know none of the books you’ve highlighted here. Surely, I’m off the radar! Yet, this is one of the lovely parts of blogging: finding new authors and their books.
I read some pretty random books sometimes, haha. 😀 And yes, agreed!
I just got a physical copy of Artificial Conditions from the library but I’m holding off because I’m waiting for the audiobook! I’m torn because I’m eager to read it but also eager to hear it on audio and I doubt I’d listen to the audio so soon after if I’ve already read the physical book. Arrghh! What to do?!
I love that you and your wife are spreading the love over the year instead of on Valentine’s Day. My husband and I don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day either and we always say something to the effect of “every day is Valentine’s Day” or “every day is your birthday” or “every day is our anniversary”, and we celebrate each other throughout the year but we don’t have a standing agreement of a book every month! I need to add a book clause to our marriage contract. Or something.
Are you listening to the dramatised versions, or the Kevin R. Free unabridged versions? I’m curious about the dramatised versions, but not sure if it’ll be worth it.
We like having lots of opportunities to spoil one another, ahaha.
The first one was a Keven R. Free version. I didn’t know there were dramatized versions!
Ten Birds That Changed the World? And only 3 stars. I’m curious about it but will skip it due to your rating.
Check out the colors of the tulips I visited this week! My Sunday Salon is so colorful this week
Eh, three stars around here is “liked it” (and my reviews are usually more nuanced than that, of course). 🙂 It’s not like I hated it.
London Particular looks fun! I need to get back to the Murderbot books too. I think I have the two latest to get still…